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The Healing Meme: Cataclysm Edition

In the days leading up to Cataclysm (you know, when I was actually playing) there was a great deal of discussion on the future of healing and mana management. Namely, that we would actually have to manage mana.

I will be the first to admit, healing was easy in Wrath, at least from a mana standpoint. As soon as I got that snowflake from the ICC 5 mans, I was set. It was the snowflake wasn’t it? The one they had to nerf because of resto druids and it was still overpowered.

Once I was in full raid gear, I would actually try to run out of mana. On any of the first 10 fights in ICC, I kid you not, I would spam my abilities on anything and everything that had lost even a little health. And then keep full hots up on everybody. I would not run oom. I just wouldn’t.

For the Lich King, ok, I actually had to try there. And it was easy if I tried.

All this has supposedly changed. I wouldn’t know. I have not healed so much as a 5 man since 4.0 dropped, let alone Cataclysm and level 85 content. Which brings us to you.

Anyone who reads this blog (all 2 of you) who heals (ok, 1 of you), I want you to fill out this meme. Either a blog post of your own or just a comment is fine. Here is what I want to know:

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Do you play a healer class and spec as your “main”:

No, I don’t anymore. I’m a fire mage.

How many characters total do you have at level 85?

0. Nada. None. Zilch. My mage is 83.

What is the more advanced current content you have (tried to) heal? 5-mans, heroics, raids, heroic raids? 25-man heroic Deathwing hard mode?

I have healed solo quests in Vash’jr.. go go Evocation!

Did you heal in Wrath? Do you heal now? Why did you or didn’t you switch?

Yes I was a tree. No, I am a mage. FIRE!

Is healing really “hard”?

What is the most different for you?

Why?

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I’m just curious really. I don’t know if I’m fully qualified to start this meme to be honest. I don’t play the game, I don’t heal, I don’t even really have that many readers to spread the meme too. But I want to know, so there you go.

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Nope, my main is still my mage. Shush. I don’t want any flak from the peanut gallery.

1 at 85, two more on the way in the mid-80s.

I’m pretty sure I’ve healed all the heroic 5-mans. I’ve healed Halfus (10 and 25) and the twins in BT (10 and 25) with a few attempts on the Council (25). Conclave in Throne of Four Winds (think just 10). Over in BWD I’ve done Magmaw and Omnitron on both 10 and 25, Atramedes on 10 and Maloriak on 25.

Yes. Yes. Chalking it up to brain damage.

Not being a powerhouse healer.

Because the mana regen just isn’t there and there is far too much stupid for DPS to stand in coupled with all the bad that happens in the encounters by design.

Yesh, a nelf priest – holy. I switched to holy from disc after slices’ post and my own personal experiences in norms. I get twitchy when i get low on the blue bar.

Recently in norm HoO i was running as SP for the guild only puggin healz… I dunno why… and we had a disc priest running OOM after the boss was down to 70%… very sad, everybody was topped up but we had a long way to go.
Popped out of shadowform and prayed for mana ^_^ but the guy ran out again instantly… so i healed the rest of the show with my SP manaregen abilities “double MF then pop dark archangel and fiend”, and disc priest throwing a heal once he had some of the blue stuff. Ofc we didn’t manage and well prolly u know the rest of the story… vote kick and get start nagging to one of our guilds top healz to come and help a hand.

How many characters total do you have at level 85?

1…the nelf

What is the more advanced current content you have (tried to) heal? 5-mans, heroics, raids, heroic raids? 25-man heroic Deathwing hard mode?

I dunno why but i’m a rather insecure person and 5 mans norms is quiet easy for me just need to watch me mana… just everytime when i log and the “hc” call goes out i get picked up as SP since i got me ilvl. maybe i should step up and say:”I’LL HEAL” and not “I’ll try to heal but don’t be to hard on me coz i might fail…whine whine whine”

Did you heal in Wrath? Do you heal now? Why did you or didn’t you switch?

Yesh i healed ICC 10-25 valithria and council was the furthest i got… nvr downed the vampire bitch or got to see sindyor LK /sadface

Is healing really “hard”?

I dunno bout “hard”, but you might say that it needs a lot more “mana”gement (see what i did there ^_^) and cutting ur losses. For instance let the nit-wit huntard die that keeps standing in the tornadoes and lightning of the first boss of Vortex Pinnacle. I saw his hp drop heavily as in 10-20% got him back to 70 – 80% and he started droppin again -> cut m loose, i don’t have mana for that.

What is the most different for you?

Mana, not all the bars stay neatly full… maybe lil OCD like Arioch.

Ow did i say that as a SP you don’t run OOM so easily, and no i don’t use a lot of spi gear to get to me hitcap. (Darkarchangel, fiend, hymn, dispersion)

Healerz love seeing me thrown up my arms in the air and channeling that blue ball of manaregen above me head. Ow i even had a drood wonder why his manapot did such good wonders until i told m it might have something to do with the hymn.

Why?

Coz Blizz made it so…?

Hope its any use to anybody, upon rereading this a lot of rambling honestly…